The Blue Social Protection Handbook provides practitioners working on fisheries or social protection with practical knowledge on leveraging social protection and jobs interventions to support productive...
The EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) aims to level the playing field by applying the same carbon price faced by domestic producers under the Emission Trading System to the emissions embodied...
Supporting countries in their fertility transitions can entail different entry points, such as improving access to reproductive health services, raising awareness and knowledge of family planning, promoting...
Burundi’s shift from its initial management information systems (MIS) to the open-source CORE-MIS (powered by open IMIS) offers valuable insights in terms of implementation approach for other countries...
Amid rapid labor market changes and aging workforces, countries need institutionalized programs and services that support lifelong skill development and utilization, from the school-to-work transition...
This paper gathers lessons from major development investments and reviews the broader evidence base on the inclusion of refugees and their host communities in national social protection programs in low-...
Causal evidence on the effectiveness of refugee labor market integration programs remains limited. This report presents baseline findings from a randomized controlled trial evaluating such a program for...
This paper examines vertical skills mismatch in Türkiye using a refined measure that adjusts for occupation, age group, sector, and year to isolate genuine education-job misalignment from compositional...
This report examines the causes of different development outcomes and suggests ways to promote inclusive prosperity and peace. It does so by looking at wealth sharing through three prisms: time, space...
East Asia is helping the rest of the world decarbonize and encouraging the domestic adoption of renewable energy. But there is an imbalance: Even as the region’s innovation and investment improve global...
East Asia is helping the rest of the world decarbonize and encouraging the domestic adoption of renewable energy. But there is an imbalance: Even as the region’s innovation and investment improve global...
This report analyzes the impact of new technologies, such as robots, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital platforms, on labor markets in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region. Technical feasibility...
In the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region, total factor productivity growth has slowed over the past two decades. Why this slowdown has come at a time of rapid technological progress is a puzzle. This...
This report analyzes the impact of new technologies, such as robots, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital platforms, on labor markets in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region. Technical feasibility...
In the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region, total factor productivity growth has slowed over the past two decades. Why this slowdown has come at a time of rapid technological progress is a puzzle. This...
The June 2025 update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) introduces several important changes to the data underlying the global poverty estimates. The most important change is the adoption of...
This report analyzes the cost of key investments for low-carbon and climateresilient urban development in all L&MICs from 2020 to 2050 across several sectors. For the purposes of this report, “city climate...
This report analyzes the cost of key investments for low-carbon and climateresilient urban development in all L&MICs from 2020 to 2050 across several sectors. For the purposes of this report, “city climate...
This background paper outlines the methodologies and detailed results of the investment costs estimation conducted for the study, Banking on Cities: Investing in Resilient and Low-Carbon Urbanization (Deuskar...
Countries frequently revise how they measure income or consumption due to changes in data collection and questionnaire design. These changes create comparability breaks in poverty trends over time. This...